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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to

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a podcast for all things green and growing. I'm Ben,

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your allotment guide and here to help you cultivate your

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garden and your passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned

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gardener or just starting out, this podcast is for you.

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Each episode will dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to

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make your garden and allotment thrive from planting, sewing, and growing.

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We will share all.

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Speaker 2: The tips and add advice.

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Speaker 1: We will also have regular episodes talking about what we

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have been up to on the Alltment. So sit back,

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grab a brew and enjoy today's episode. Hey everyone, and

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welcome back to Gardening with Ben for your Friday's episode.

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I hope you're all excited for the weekend. I know

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I certainly am, And yeah, I'm looking forward to getting

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all them jobs done down at the allotment again. And

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if you'll have heard previously in my other episodes, is

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that at the moment, I'm just concentrating on improving it

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and getting it all ready for next year, and just

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tidying it up, making it all neat tidy, getting rid

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of all the weeds, getting rid of any rubbish on

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my plot or any stones in the soil and stuff

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like that, just making it all healthy again ready for

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next year. Because I'm not a very tidy gardener. I've

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said this many times. I'm a messy gardener and one

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of these that will plant my plants and then just

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leave the plant pots at the side on the path,

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all the trains around and stuff like that. I should

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really be more tidy and be more presentable. But maybe

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we'll put that on our New Year's resolutions for next year,

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to be a lot more tidy and make it look

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more neater and aesthetic. If I can actually say that

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word and make it look more beautiful. And hopefully next

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year we'll be doing a lot more in making it

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look better and hopefully do some improvements. And like I said,

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through the wintertime, I'll be rebuilding all my beds, getting

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them all screwed together again, giving them all early pay looking,

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making it look fresh again, and replacing any wood that's

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rotted away. And I use this time as spending quite

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a bit of money. I spent quite a bit of

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money on my allotment. I'll hold my hands up to that.

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As I don't have a garden. I don't have any hobbies,

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and this is my only hobby and it's what I

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enjoy doing, so I.

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Speaker 2: Don't mind putting some money into it.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, they say that you do gardening and allotment

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to save money.

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Speaker 2: I probably don't save money, but.

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Speaker 1: I do it more for enjoyment and for peace of

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mind and for my mental health, mainly just being outside

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in the fresh air, and I do prefer I do

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love the summer and getting an sometime and being out

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in the fresh air. But I do love the cold

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weather as well, when it's nice and crisp and it's

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nice and fresh out there where you could come over

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and feel feel like you've felt it on your face

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if you get me. And fresh air is obviously good

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for you as well. It ties you out, but it

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makes you feel better in the long run for being outside.

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And even like at this time you were having bonfires

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and the smell of bonfires that always goes down well,

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which means I'll probably have to have a bonfire soon.

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I think that's one thing that I do need to do,

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but it's just finding a nice, dry day to do it.

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But thankfully, this week has been pretty nice and I

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think we're heading towards a heatwave they mentioned. I don't

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know if it's still true or not if we're going

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to get a heat with this week, but we'll see

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what it's like. Hopefully it might be some baby weather

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at the weekend.

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Speaker 2: You never know.

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Speaker 1: But what are we going to talk about in today's podcast? Well,

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today's podcast is going to be talking about the main

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things that you plant at this time of year. I

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know we've obviously done the podcast talking about everything you

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can plant this month, but what do I plant personally

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this month? Like I can read you out everything that

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you meant to plant this month, but what if I

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actually planted this month? What am I growing in my

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allotment in November? As obviously a lot of people follow

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me and follow what I do, so I'll share with

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you exactly what I am growing and whether anybody wants

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to try growing some stuff, I feel free to follow

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along as well. So at this time of year, I've

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obviously I got given a load of onion bulbs or

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some onion bulbs, so we've got all them in And

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to be honest, I've never really grown autum onion bulbs.

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normal onion bulbs. I've planted them many a times from

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like March time, and I've also planted onions from seed

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at the same time. I've done like a little comparison

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in the past to see which actually do better, the

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onion seed or the onion set, and it was surprisingly

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that the onion seed did a lot better than the set.

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I don't know why, but that one came out the best.

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they wore the same and both fed the same as well,

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so the seed did better when I actually grew the onions.

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so it's going to be interesting to see how well

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they actually do. And they've been in now probably three weeks.

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of all the onions being planted and how to plant

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them and where to plant them and how how far

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aparty should plant them, and they've stille that actually sent

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out any shoots yet. I think I've got one onion

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that had just sent out some shoots this week, So

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fingers cross wont go back to the allotment this weekend.

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Mar will have sent the shops out, because it seems

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a long time that it's taken about three weeks from

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to send the shoots out. I thought they'd be quite faster,

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to be honest, and I've planted yellow ones and red ones,

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so I've never had any look with red onions.

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Speaker 2: They always seem to go to seed. So we'll see.

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know by sending me a message if you grow any

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autumn onions and how well yours have done in the past,

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or whether you just stick to growing them from March

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time when I usually plant them. I might plant some

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more in March. We'll see how much space we've got

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and try and get some maring as well as compare

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them see which ones actually do biggest, whether it be

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the autumn ones that are started off or whether it

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be the normal ones that we start at March. And

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they're usually both ready at the same time around June

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July time, so you're just planting them that bit earlier

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than the autumn ones to give them that little head

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start and that little push. But obviously they've got to

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be the autumn varieties if you are starting them at

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this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Garden centers, they're usually out and about at this time

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of year, so you shouldn't get yourself muddled up because

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they won't have the other varieties out at this time

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of year. So the ones that usually on display at

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this time of year there will be the ones that

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you grow. So what else have we planted. We've planted

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are garlic. Now we've planted absolutely loads of different varieties

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of garlic this year. Like in the past, I've just

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usually used about twenty cloves and planted them, and this

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year I must have planted about sixty sixty cloves altogether.

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sixty cloves.

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given to me. So I've planted all them ones and

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they were massive. The clothes were absolutely massive.

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they have not actually started sprouting yet. The ones that

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ones as soon as they came. And they've been in

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about four weeks and they only took about a week

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to start sprouting. I couldn't believe it. They were like

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shooting out of the ground straight away. So they're well

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on the way. But we just need the cold weather

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to get them to form the garlic clove itself, because

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of year, is because it needs the cold to help

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form the garlic bulb itself. Without the cold weather, it'll

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just end up being a clove. So that's why it

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needs to cold to help break the clove to form

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the bulb. It's very complicated stuff, very scientific, but yeah,

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that's why it needs the cold weather for it to

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be done. So. I know some people sometimes try and

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grown from March onward, but they won't do as well.

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grow some garlic. So if you're listening to this podcast

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and you've not planted any garlic, make sure, you go

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out and buy some and plant it as you've still

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got plenty of time because the cold weather's not come yet.

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doing well. We have not even had a frost yet.

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the supermarket. Have a look in the supermarket and have

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a look at the country where the garlic comes from. Now,

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if it's from the UK or Europe, any European country,

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that's fine to grow. If it says it's from China

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obviously China's a lot hotter and Russia is a lot colder,

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so they're not necessarily used to our climates, so they

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I've just ended up having to go to the supermarket

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to buy some and I've done I've done well with them.

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I've had fantastic crops and produced from them. So you

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can never not try that. And I know some people

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had to go at me because they're saying, oh, you're

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putting garden centers out of business, But at the end

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of the day, it's just the same fingers what they allen.

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Obviously you can't the core seed varieties are grown to

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be grown again if you get me. But it all

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comes down to the same thing. It's the same as

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growing potatoes from supermarket. A lot of people say, don't

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grow and from ones at the supermarket. You've got to

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buy seed potatoes because the one's in the supermarket have

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obviously been spread or stuff like that done trum. But

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my dad's growing is from supermarket for the last few

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years and they've done absolutely fantastic with is not I

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had to complaint from the supermarket potatoes whatsoever. So that's

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what I did. I've planted some which are due to

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be harvested for Christmas. But as you'll have seen from

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my previous YouTube video that they are actually ready to

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harvest now the plants have died off. So this weekend

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I'm going to be harvesting my Christmas potatoes in November

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a month airly, but we'll see how well they actually do,

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and I'll do a reveal video of how well they've

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actually grown and how well they've come out. As I'm

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always honest, I tell you if it's worked, if it's

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not worked, if we've had a disaster, I'm very upen

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and honest, Like I'll always admit that I'm not a

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professional gardener.

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Speaker 2: I'll just dry things and if it works, it works.

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Speaker 1: That's how you learn things, don't you just trying different

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things out. So, yeah, those are the main two things

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that we're planting are onion and garlic. Now come back

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later on in the week and we'll talk about some

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of the other things what I'm growing this month, and

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hopefully you'll join in, and if you've not planted unions

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and garlic, get some planted, especially garlic, as it's easy

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to purchase to plant. Obviously onions you need to go

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